Hypselodoris kanga feeding - Thailand

March 6, 2007
From: spencer finn

Hi there, great site, loadsa useful info.

Was hoping someone could help me identify this little critter. A nudibranch of some sort I have not seen before.

Locality: Phuket, 25 m, Thailand, Andaman Sea, 22 February 2007, wreck. Length: 3 cm. Photographer: Spencer Finn.

Spencer Finn

spencerfinn@yahoo.co.uk

Finn, S., 2007 (Mar 6) Hypselodoris kanga feeding - Thailand. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/19548

Dear Spence,
Glad you like the Forum. One of the great features of the Forum is how interested non specialists can give us valuable information. For example, your photo shows this nudibranch feeding on a species of the sponge genus Dysidea. We know little about feeding specialisation in nudibranchs so every little new bit of information like this helps us to build up the 'full' picture. Your animal is Hypselodoris kanga, which can usually be identified from similarly coloured species by the yellow spots down the outside face of each gill. For example, this colour form is similar in colour to H. zebrina but it has quite differently coloured gills.

Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2007 (Mar 6). Comment on Hypselodoris kanga feeding - Thailand by spencer finn. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/19548

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